The ending to Stephen King's CUJO is... well, depressing to say the least. But the adaptation took a different path. Is it the better take? That and more, including what the book is ACTUALLY about, are explored in the latest Stephen King Dissection.

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Read the full Paris Review interview with Stephen King here: https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5653/stephen-king-the-art-of-fiction-no-189-stephen-king

Read Michael Collings' essay about Cujo here: http://michaelrcollings.blogspot.com/2015/06/stephen-king-cujo-retro-review.html

Read Kealan Patrick Burke's take on Cujo here: http://www.stephenkingrevisited.com/cujo-revisited-by-kealan-patrick-burke/

Order Lee Gambin's NOPE, NOTHING WRONG HERE here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/nope-nothing-wrong-here-lee-gambin/1126677554?ean=9781629332697

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